Drive LaCie Fuel keeps any data in French, regardless of the presence or Internet sockets

First briefly and the product of the company. LaCie (be sure to read in the head with a French accent, so funny) - a company that specializes in equipment for data storage and displays. That is, data storage, be it the most common wired HDD volumes or RAID-array for special needs - that is their strong point. Last year, LaCie was bought giant SeaGate, which, as you know, also specializes in drives. As a result, LaCie received far more powerful technological support, while remaining separate brand with a recognizable design that all sides well. Guys know a lot about how to make good drives, and on this topic quality can be closed.

Now specifically about our product. This hard drive LaCie Fuel 1TB (there is a more capacious option to 2 terabytes) with support for Wi-Fi wireless line of portable drives. Appearance you can evaluate yourself and discuss such a subjective moment we do not want.

In general, the design of the French always had a certain identity, and in the case of individual products LaCie, we can observe the forms to which a hand not Aby who, as the people who create silhouettes of Porsche cars, a prominent designer Neil Poulton, and many other important people from the world design. All this is imprinted in the general style of the company's products, and if a little dream, the top cover is quite guess the protective casing of the engine of a sports car.

Gray rough plastic is pleasant to the touch and fits well with Apple technology. Oh yes, it is necessary to clarify that the disc is positioned as an accessory for "apple" computers, phones, tablets, and Apple TV, though we did not see any reason not to recommend it to Windows users and Android. For example, the file system is the default the exFAT, that is universal, but the manufacturer, of course, know better. We think this is due to the emphasis in history. In ancient times LaCie, then known électronique d2, focused on the production of Apple Computer.

A few key performance characteristics. Square with sides of 115 mm, thickness 23 mm. It weighs only 300 grams, which is very impressive when you remember settling in Wi-Fi-module and the board on which it works, and also quite capacious battery.

About the impact - not a word. Nor on the box or in the description on the website. It can be concluded that any additional means to protect the device against mechanical impact construction is not provided, and especially to throw it on the floor and check the function we still do not want to.

About interfaces. Although the drive, and wireless, but Super Speed ​​USB 3.0 there are also works great.

When testing the reading and writing speed, we obtained the following data.

In fact, this is the limit for HDD. If we talk about the work on Wi-Fi, the neck there will be no longer the maximum possible speed of the hard drive, and your wireless network. LaCie Fuel supports 802.11 b / g / n, and indicate that although decent speed synthetic tests, but in practice, these tend to be significantly lower and are due to both the environment and congestion channels. For example, in our office center all channels 2.4 GHz crammed to the eyeballs, and most likely in your home situation is similar. From all this we can conclude that, in practice, the disk will never speak the weak link and it will work exactly at such a speed that it will provide the wireless network.

Inside the LaCie, in addition to the disk is unknown capacity battery that lasts up to 10 hours. In reality, life is decreasing. The more actively traded to the disk, the more data it sends over the wireless network, so, consequently, the battery will discharge faster. Most likely, the indicator at 10 o'clock you get when you consistently convey to him is not the heaviest data (ie, no video) on a single device. If the disc simultaneously connect up to five devices and three of them will pull the disc HD-video, and the drive at the same time will receive the Internet with some kind of an access point, then the operation will be reduced to about five hours. A lot or a little? If we are talking about the use of the city, it will be no problem. Check the nature of the absence of a number of the car? Here you can bet. Will your tablet or smartphone seven to eight hours without recharging broadcast video? Unlikely. It turns out, the receiving device is discharged before the drive.

At the beginning of this article, we talked about the fact that the modern wireless hard drive - this is much more than an ordinary data storage at an inflated price. For clarity, we list and give a description of the mode in which the drive can run on its own and in conjunction with various devices.

In common scenarios LaCie application functionality is implemented LaCie Media App.

In fact, this versatile tool with which you can view and manage your library of files on the disk and on the devices.

On view are all very clear and obvious. In mobile devices, do not have much space to store them on the collection, such as movies. Even the manufacturers are not very adequate form prices on older device models with the highest memory capacity. In this case, the LaCie Fuel - this is your mediahranilische and Media App - shell, representing the library in a convenient way. Grouping by type of content and sorting on key parameters to be expected there.

Meanwhile, your mobile device may initially be slaughtered you created content. Videos, high-resolution photos - all of this weighs decently and quickly eats place. With Media App data from a mobile device are transferred to the Fuel, and mobile devices are again ready to record new video lengthy and time-consuming photo shoot.

However, media storage and playback, though implemented, it is convenient, but they are quite trivial use case. If, however, distract from the media and add to the capabilities of the disk sync with Dropbox account, and Google Drive, it offers even more options.

We have something to fill in the cloud, then the data further duplicated on Fuel. In fact, this automatic backup, access to which does not need the internet.

In a previous article, we touched upon the subject of regular backups, and said that a backup of important data should be established according to the rule "3-2-1", that is, in triplicate on two carriers, one of which is remotely. In this case, a bunch of LaCie and cloud storage becomes completely automated way to create backup copies of anything.

By default, your LaCie Fuel creates an access point Wi-Fi, to which can simultaneously connect up to five devices, three of which will be able to receive in parallel with the disk HD-video content. In this case, the disc itself can find and connect to available Wi-Fi hotspots with Internet access. The thus-obtained access to the Internet simultaneously sharitsya four of the connected devices.

On desktop or laptop drive appears as an ordinary network storage. Downloading files in it there is simply copying.

The last important point that I would like to draw attention concerns Stream video and audio from the disc on the playback device. Bunch of LaCie Fuel and Media App allows you to enjoy all the features AirPlay and DLNA. You can use the tablet to start up HD-movie on the large-meter panel and enjoy watching. Without wires, without wasting time on copying.

LaCie - it's really convenient universal store any type of data with a particular focus on media that does not depend on the presence of the Internet and the distance from the nearest outlet.

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